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Northwestern University is one of the country's leading private research and teaching universities. It has two campuses located on Lake Michigan: the 240-acre main campus in Evanston, about 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, and a 25-acre campus in Chicago. A third campus is located in Doha, Qatar. Northwestern has approximately 8,000 full-time undergraduate students, 8,000 graduate and professional program students and 2,000 part-time students. A member of the Big Ten conference, its athletic teams are called the Wildcats. Founded in 1851, Northwestern now has 12 schools and colleges: the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; the School of Communication; the School of...
Northwestern University is one of the country's leading private research and teaching universities. It has two campuses located on Lake Michigan: the 240-acre main campus in Evanston, about 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, and a 25-acre campus in Chicago. A third campus is located in Doha, Qatar. Northwestern has approximately 8,000 full-time undergraduate students, 8,000 graduate and professional program students and 2,000 part-time students. A member of the Big Ten conference, its athletic teams are called the Wildcats. Founded in 1851, Northwestern now has 12 schools and colleges: the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; the School of Communication; the School of Continuing Studies; the School of Education and Social Policy; the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; the Graduate School; the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications; the School of Law; the J. L. Kellogg School of Management; the Feinberg School of Medicine; the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music; and Northwestern University in Qatar.
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Jeannette Walls' Visit Among R.J. Julia Events
The Hartford CourantJeannette Walls, the journalist whose 2009 memoir "The Glass Castle," about growing up poor with brilliant but neglectful parents, has been a New York Times bestseller for five years, has written her first novel, "The Silver Star" (Scribner, $26). It's...Tags: Authors, Kensington, Services and Shopping, Pet Shops, Services, and Supplies, Ulcerative Colitis
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Dr. John Beal Jr., 1915-2013
Dr. John Beal Jr. juggled teaching, research and a medical practice during nearly 20 years as chairman of the department of surgery at what was then Northwestern University Medical School. "He made a number of important contributions to surgical...
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Midwest pelted with rain, wind, hail, tornadoes
CHICAGO (AP) — A massive line of storms packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds rolled through the Midwest Wednesday evening driving people into basements for shelter, tearing down power lines and causing flooding in low-lying areas....
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How I Made It: SpaceX exec Gwynne Shotwell
The gig: Gwynne Shotwell, 49, is president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, the Hawthorne company that builds rockets and space capsules to resupply the International Space Station for NASA. Shotwell is No. 2 at the pioneering company behind founder...
Tags: Satellite Technology, NASA, Real Estate Sellers, Space Programs, Illinois Institute of Technology
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Two good thrillers, one odd premise
Good thrillers begin at home, at least when it comes to Chicago crime writers. The spring list of new genre novels shows local writer Michael Harvey working at the top of his form, with "The Innocence Game." -------------------- This piece first...
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Local Voices, Jun. 12
Parents of ill children This is in response to "Precious gift of a parking pass; Couple who lost son vow to help others with the cost of visiting gravely ill kids" (News, June 2), by Tribune reporter Jodi S. Cohen. It is incomprehensible to me that a...Tags: Hinsdale, U.S. House of Representatives, Students, Sen, Psychologists
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Dorothy Louise Conger, 1914-2013
For more than 70 years, Dorothy Louise Conger involved herself in a range of Chicago nonprofit organizations, sharing her great love of literature by reading to the blind and to rheumatic fever patients living in "iron lungs" at La Rabida Children's...
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John Wager, 1946-2013
Before he was a philosophy professor, John Wager was an Army infantry sergeant fighting in Vietnam who, in 1970, refused an order to go into Cambodia because he believed it would be illegal. The invasion of Cambodia was announced by President Richard...Tags: Elwood (Will, Illinois), Ethics, Wars and Interventions, Values, Students
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Nonprofit group gives startups a lift
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- The organization that manages Indiana's 21st Century Research and Technology Fund has a new pot of money available for budding companies, and it also has a new entrepreneur-in-residence working in the north-central part of the state....Tags: Stevensville, Startups, University of Notre Dame, U.S. Department of the Treasury
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Andrew Greeley dead: Priest, author, critic was 85
Chicago TribuneThe Rev. Andrew Greeley, the outspoken Roman Catholic priest, best-selling novelist and sociologist known for his deeply researched academic appraisals and sometimes scathing critiques of his church, died Wednesday night, several years after fracturing...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Hyde Park, Joseph Bernardin, John Hancock Center, Fiction
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More salt in food, but should we take recommended limits with a grain of skepticism?
While many doctors urge patients to curb their sodium intake for better health, the processed food and restaurant industries continue to spike products with large amounts of sodium, according to a recent study. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans in...
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Plymouth Kiwanis award $5,000
South Bend TribunePLYMOUTH — The Plymouth chapter of Kiwanis has awarded five $1,000 scholarships to Plymouth High School and Argos High seniors. - Joe Knapp plans on attending Ancilla College this fall and received the $1,000 Kiwanis Ancilla Memorial Scholarship....Tags: Purdue University, Indiana University, Awards and Prizes, Financial Aid, Human Interest
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